Northern Horn would like do Baghdad, intermittant pock pock pockets of shias across Iraq all the way to Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and an out post or two in the Strip and West Bank.

After all - Iran has proved to the world that the Mullahs particular brand
of m"hammedism - their designer version via shia - is in fact the ONLY
kind that can stand up to Great Satan! Drove Great Satan out of Lebanon. Iraq and AFPAK too!

Combatty cadre in surrounding environs target Little Satan and decisively defeat and/or stalemate Little Satan's blatant diss to ineffective, sunnified suck ups and corrupt leaders for life, regimes that lose every war they fight and provide nothing for their own people.

The power of the once-mighty Shia Crescent is on the decline, and its
leaders in Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have only themselves to blame.
Instead of using their influence to correct injustice—as per the Shia
ideology—and build better states, the Shia underdogs have become the
oppressive tyrants they once vowed to topple.

The ever-defiant Iran, which has been commanding—and more importantly
funding—this regional Shia enterprise, is now watching hyperinflation
hit its national currency, which has lost more than half of its value
since the United States and Europe slammed sanctions on vital financial
facilities, such as the Iranian Central Bank.

Yes, Iran is in trouble. For the first time in years, Tehran is so
nervous that it almost invited the United States into a war by
threatening to close the Straits of Hormuz, tailing a couple of US navy
ships, and warning the Gulf states not to raise their oil production to
compensate for the Iranian shortfall.

In 2010, Hiz"B"Allah beat its Sunni rivals politically, too, and took full
control of the country. But it now owns the state’s failure, which has
caused its popularity to dip. Hiz"B"Allah’s problems are further
complicated with the drying up of Iranian petro-dollars and America’s
tight monitoring of Shia donors among the Lebanese diaspora.

Hiz"B"Allah lost what was left of its fig leaf when it openly sided with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose regime has brutally killed 6,000
Syrians in a bid to quell a year-old uprising. Having bet on the Syrian
dictator, Hiz"B"Allah will find itself in trouble with any post-Assad
Syrian government.

And like Hiz"B"Allah and Iran, Assad has had numerous chances, both from Great Satan and Saudi Arabia, as well as from his own people who
patiently expressed hope in the Damascus Spring in 2001, and again in
2005. Whenever weak, Assad makes promises to his opponents and the
world, but when he is back to full strength he reneges, hunts down his
enemies, and tortures and imprisons them.

Finally, Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki is also a Shia Crescent leader who will regret his choices soon. Having won America’s trust and defeated his
rivals in the 2010 elections, Maliki never offered compromise from a
position of strength. Instead, he went after his opponents. He
instructed the judiciary to persecute Sunni Vice President Tariq
al-Hashemi, while breaking his promises to the Kurds by not holding a
referendum over Kirkuk and failing to agree to terms on a hydrocarbon
law.

When the allies of the Shia Crescent look back, they will remember the
days when 44 came begging for Tehran’s friendship, and the world
urged Hezbollah to end its wars on a high and endorse peace. Assad will
remember how the Syrians were willing to settle for little compromise,
while Maliki will soon find out that America has more pressing business
than helping him emerge as Iraq’s new dictator.

When the Shia look back, they will regret not making good on their
promises of fixing the world and ending tyranny. Their rivals might beat
them back, and they might find themselves again as the downtrodden, a
cycle that looks vicious in this region.

wHoA!

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